Mary Frost

1 week ago | brooklyneagle.com | Mary Frost

FDNY truck. Eagle file photo BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — A lightning-fast response by the Fire Department of New York and by-the-book reactions of building staff prevented a co-op fire at 101 Clark St. in Brooklyn Heights from turning tragic, the president of the co-op told the Brooklyn Eagle. Twenty units and 78 FDNY and emergency medical workers responded to the fire that broke out in an apartment on the 31st floor of the tower in the early hours of Thursday.

1 week ago | brooklyneagle.com | Mary Frost

The city staged a week-long drill to prepare for future health emergencies. Shown: The Brooklyn Hospital Center triaged patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle The city staged a week-long health emergency drill in late March to prepare for simultaneous attacks across the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, in a scenario depicting mass casualties and a surge of patients with burn and trauma-related injuries.

2 weeks ago | brooklyneagle.com | Mary Frost

Surveillance photo of the man accused of forcibly grabbing women in Brooklyn. Photo: NYPD BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Police have arrested a man suspected of a series of forcible groping incidents that had unnerved women in neighborhoods from Brooklyn Heights to Downtown Brooklyn since mid-March. Kalen Bell, 26, was arrested and charged at the 77th Precinct stationhouse in Crown Heights at 9:25 a.m. Tuesday.

2 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Mary Frost

Share RED HOOK —The New York City Economic Development Corp. has postponed — for a few weeks — a vote on a plan outlining the future of the $3.1 billion, 122-plus-acre Brooklyn Marine Terminal Project. Originally scheduled for April 11, the vote by members of the Brooklyn Marine Terminal Task Force will now take place near the end of the month, though an exact date has not been set. The 28-member Task Force is chaired by Rep.

2 weeks ago | brooklyneagle.com | Mary Frost

BMT-deadline-rally-01-Mary-Frost(Left) Victoria Alexander of Resilient Red Hook, Rep. Jerry Nadler, Councilmembers Alexa Aviles and Shahana Hanif, and other officials spoke at a rally in Red Hook Thursday asking for more time in shaping the vision for the Brooklyn Marine Terminal Project. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle RED HOOK —The New York City Economic Development Corp.